Fine arts

Watch the movie, eating buttery popcorn and sharing in a moment that, unlike the isolation of reading, brings you together with the people around you — and then go home to your copy, and re-read your favorite scenes, reveling in the show being staged in your mind.

The musical follows the lives of the Goodmans, a typical suburban family trying to keep things together while the mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder. The musical also deals with issues such as suicide, grieving and the failures of modern psychiatry.

The point of “Instant Narrative” is to have someone write a continuous narrative in real time about the museum visitors, thus making each person the subject of the art. The story is then projected into the gallery space for everyone to read.

The outdoor art exhibit sprawls from house to house, across painted streets and sidewalks and over vacant lots. The colors are bright, the paintings huge, the sculptures towering — all standing undisturbed in stark contrast to the desecration that surrounds them.